The Watchmaker's Will"
Kabir bellowed, throwing his body weight across the back seat to shove Vikram and Devashish out of the open-topped jeep.
Before Anaya could dive over the passenger side door, the drone fired.
The beam of pure temporal displacement struck the hood of the Mahindra jeep. The effect was horrifying and instantaneous. The metal didn't blast apart; instead, the front half of the vehicle rapidly aged through five decades of extreme weathering in less than a second. The green paint blistered and peeled away into dust, the engine block rusted solid, and the front tires crumbled into a black, powdery ash. The front suspension collapsed under its own weight, tilting the chassis violently toward the thre